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Friday, February 21, 2014

Delays in warship refits hitting operational readiness: CAG

Delhi class destroyerThe Navy is growing into a powerful three-dimensional "blue-water" force, capable of protecting the country's geostrategic interests from the Persian Gulf to Malacca Strait, but lack of proper infrastructure and management at dockyards is proving a big drag on its operational capabilities.

The latest CAG report, tabled in Parliament, has punched deep holes into the entire planning and management of refits of warships that take place in the two naval dockyards at Mumbai and Visakhapatnam and three naval ship repair yards at Port Blair, Kochi and Karwar.

Slamming the huge delays in refits and repairs of warships, undertaken to keep the "platforms" packed with weapons, sensors and machinery seaworthy and fighting-fit, the audit watchdog said the Navy's operational readiness to meet "contemporary" threats and challenges was being adversely hit.

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